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News Archive - 2008

Here are the most important news items we have published in 2008 on PHP.net.

Open Source Developers' Conference 2008 - Sydney - Call for Papers

[17-May-2008]

The Open Source Developers' Conference 2008 is a conference run by open source developers, for developers and business people. It covers numerous programming languages across a range of operating systems, and related topics such as business processes, licensing, and strategy. Talks vary from introductory pieces through to the deeply technical. It is a great opportunity to meet, share, and learn with like-minded individuals.

This year, the conference will be held in Sydney, Australia during the first week of December. If you are an Open Source maintainer, developer or user, the organising committee would encourage you to submit a talk proposal on open source tools, solutions, languages or technologies you are working with.

For more details, see: http://osdc.com.au/2008/papers/cfp.html.

If you have any questions or require assistance with your submission, please don't hesitate to ask!

We continue to recognise the increasing importance of Open Source in providing a medium for collaboration between individuals, researchers, business and government. In recognition of this and ensure a high standard of presentations, we intend to peer-review all submitted papers.

OSDC 2008 Sydney (Australia) - Key Program Dates:

  1. 28 Apr - Call for Papers
  2. 30 Jun - Initial proposals (short abstract) due
  3. 21 Jul - Proposal acceptance
  4. 15 Sep - Accepted paper submissions

For all information, contacts and updates, see the OSDC conference web site at http://osdc.com.au/2008/.

elePHPants

Call for PUG, for elePHPants, 2008 generation

[13-May-2008]

The elePHPants are now ready to make their 2008 generation. PHP User groups, enthusiasts and companies that are interested in groups of elePHPants, shall join this year's herd.

ElePHPants are a great link of the community, happily promoting your favorite language in conferences, on work station, baby cribs and other unusual places. Production prices make it possible for groups to raise funds, entice membership or simply bring joy and PHP around.

Pre-register your herd of elePHPants online, for big and small, and join the world of blue elePHPants.

Google Summer of Code: php.net students

[22-Apr-2008]

The PHP team is once again proud to participate in the Google Summer of Code. Ten students will "flip bits instead of burgers" this summer:

Update (May 11th): Unfortunately Nicholas Sloan had to drop out of the program, but he will be replaced by Rudy Nappée working on the same application.

PHP 5.2.6 Released

[01-May-2008]

The PHP development team would like to announce the immediateavailability of PHP 5.2.6. This release focuses on improving the stability ofthe PHP 5.2.x branch with over 120 bug fixes, several of which are security related.All users of PHP are encouraged to upgrade to this release.

Further details about the PHP 5.2.6 release can be found in the release announcement for 5.2.6, the full list of changes is available in the ChangeLog for PHP 5.

Security Enhancements and Fixes in PHP 5.2.6:

  • Fixed possible stack buffer overflow in the FastCGI SAPI identified by Andrei Nigmatulin.
  • Fixed integer overflow in printf() identified by Maksymilian Aciemowicz.
  • Fixed security issue detailed in CVE-2008-0599 identified by Ryan Permeh.
  • Fixed a safe_mode bypass in cURL identified by Maksymilian Arciemowicz.
  • Properly address incomplete multibyte chars inside escapeshellcmd() identified by Stefan Esser.
  • Upgraded bundled PCRE to version 7.6

Update (May 6th): The Windows installers were missing the XSL and IMAP extensions.

Update (May 3rd): The Windows archives were missing the XSL and IMAP extensions.

Forum AFUP Paris 2008

Call for speakers for Forum PHP Paris 2008

[13-Apr-2008]

The AFUP, Association Française des Utilisateurs de PHP, is proud to announce the upcoming conference "Forum PHP 2008".

For this unique event in France, we are looking for the best French speaking experts, who want to share their know-how and enthusiasm. This two day conference features one technical day, with the most advanced PHP techniques and a business day, with case studies and examples of successful projects.

  • How to manage a PHP project (tools, methods, ...)
  • Insure code quality
  • Internet and legal issues (intellectual property, ...)
  • Build a business around
  • PHP scalibility
  • Connect services(web services)
  • Rich User Interfaces (technology choice, implementation, ...)

Date and location

The "Forum PHP Paris 2008" will take place in Paris on 8th-9th december 2008

Sessions will typically be 45 minutes long followed by a 10 minutes Q&A session and up to 3 hours for workshops. Use the form on the site, no email proposal will be accepted.

Proposals will be reviewed after the deadline has passed. Additional information may be asked where needed. Proposals will be chosen according to their layout, relevancy for a professional audience and the overall homegeneity of the forum. Every candidate will be personnally notified of the status of their proposal. The decision is final. Priority will be given to sessions in French.

PHP DC conference 2008

PHP DC conference 2008

[13-Apr-2008]

The DC PHP Developers Group recently announced Kshemendra Paul as a featured keynote speaker at the DC PHP Conference & Expo, June 2-4, 2008, at George Washington University in Washington, DC. Paul, chief architect for the Office of Management and Budget Executive Office of the President, will be presenting on "Federal E-Government and Enterprise Architecture Updates."

Join hundreds of PHP practitioners, business managers, and government officials from around the world in the exchange of ideas and solutions for building a better web application infrastructure. The DC PHP conference will include tracks pertaining to business cases, best practices, the art of PHP, PHP applications, PHP in the enterprise, and Open Source. The full speaker schedule will be announced shortly.

For more information about DC PHP Conference & Expo 2008 and to register, please visit www.dcphpconference.com. Early discounted registration rates affective until April 15, 2008

TestFest 2008

[30-Mar-2008]

The PHP-QA team would like to announce the TestFest for the month of May 2008. The TestFest is an event that aims at improving the code coverage of the test suite for the PHP language itself. As part of this event, local User Groups (UG) are invited to join the TestFest. These UGs can meet physically or come together virtually. The point however is that people network to learn together. Aside from being an opportunity for all of you to make friends with like minded people in your (virtual) community, it also will hopefully reduce the work load for the PHP.net mentors.

All it takes is someone to organize a UG to spearhead the event and to get others involved in writing phpt tests. The submissions will then be reviewed by members of php.net before getting included in the official test suite. Please visit the TestFest homepage to get additional details on the TestFest on how to get involved, either as a UG or by setting up the necessary infrastructure.

The Free and Open Source Conference

PHP @ FrOSCon: Call for Papers

[20-Mar-2008]

The Free and Open Source Conference (FrOSCon) 2008 is a two-day conference on free software and open source. It will take place on August, 23th and 24th 2008 in Sankt Augustin near Bonn, Germany.

The PHP Usergroups Dortmund, Köln/Bonn and Hamburg are cooperatively organizing the PHP track as a sub-conference of the FrOSCon. The call for paper is now open.

Google Summer of Code 2008

[19-Mar-2008]

Once again we are glad to announce that we have been accepted to be a Google Summer of Code project. See our program for this year's GSoC.

We would like to take this opportunity to say thanks to Google Inc. for this privilege to participate once again, and would like to invite everyone to look at our list of ideas: http://wiki.php.net/gsoc/2008. Students are of course more than welcome to come up with their own ideas for their proposals and we will consider each and every application that we will receive.

So once again, thanks to everyone who is involved in this magnificent journey and we hope to see many of you great students and open source passionate join us in our most enjoyable Google Summer of Code projects.

php|tek 2008: Chicago

php|tek 2008: Chicago

[19-Feb-2008]
php|tek 2008: Chicago

The publishers of php|architect Magazine are proud to announce the php|tek 2008 conference in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

The PHP Community meets May 20-23 for one of North America's premier PHP conferences of 2008. Join us to hear top speakers such as Derick Rethans (eZ Systems), Lucas Nelan (Facebook), Chris Shiflett (OmniTI), Eli White (Digg) and yes, even Terry Chay (Tagged).

For the past two years, php|architect's spring conference has sold out weeks before the start date, so if you're interested in attending, don't delay, and be sure to sign up ASAP!

PHP Québec conference 2008

PHP Québec conference 2008

[06-Feb-2008]
2008 PHP Quebec Conference & Job Fair

The PHP Quebec team is pleased to present the sixth edition of the PHP Quebec Conference. The Conference will take place in Montreal, Canada, on March 12 through 14.

Join us for the PHPLabs, 2 days of technical talks, the Open Source Job Fair & Cocktail. Meet with well know community members such as: John Coggeshall, Marcus Boerger, Zak Greant, Chris Shiflett, Damien Seguy and many more.

Take note that online registration ends on March 7th. For more information, visit the website: http://conf.phpquebec.com

PHP London Conference 08

phplondon conference 2008

[10-Jan-2008]

February 29th (Leap Year Day). phplondon.org announce their third annual community conference to be held at Inmarsat, Old Street, London.

This year the conference will run two tracks and include speakers such as Derick Rethans, Wez Furlong, Scott MacVicar and Zoe Slattery.

We will also be holding an extended presentation and discussion on frameworks for PHP.

Visit our conference site to register. Early bird discount is available until 1st February 2008.

DC PHP Conference 2008

DC PHP Conference 2008: Call For Papers Open

[03-Jan-2008]

2008 DC PHP Conference June 2nd - 4th

  • Submission Deadline: March 15, 2008
  • Notification by: April 2, 2008

Join us at the 3rd Annual DC PHP Conference. The event will take place at George Washington University's Cafritz Conference Center in the heart of Washington DC. The three day conference begins June 2nd and 3rd with general sessions, and ends June 4th with tutorials.

For more details go to http://www.dcphpconference.com/node/346

PHP 4.4.8 Released

[03-Jan-2008]

The PHP development team would like to announce the immediate availability of PHP 4.4.8. It continues to improve the security and the stability of the 4.4 branch and all users are strongly encouraged to upgrade to it as soon as possible. This release wraps up all the outstanding patches for the PHP 4.4 series, and is therefore the last normal PHP 4.4 release. If necessary, releases to address security issues could be made until 2008-08-08.

Security Enhancements and Fixes in PHP 4.4.8:

  • Improved fix for MOPB-02-2007.
  • Fixed an integer overflow inside chunk_split(). Identified by Gerhard Wagner.
  • Fixed integer overlow in str[c]spn().
  • Fixed regression in glob when open_basedir is on introduced by #41655 fix.
  • Fixed money_format() not to accept multiple %i or %n tokens.
  • Added "max_input_nesting_level" php.ini option to limit nesting level of input variables. Fix for MOPB-03-2007.
  • Fixed INFILE LOCAL option handling with MySQL - now not allowed when open_basedir or safe_mode is active.
  • Fixed session.save_path and error_log values to be checked against open_basedir and safe_mode (CVE-2007-3378).

For a full list of changes in PHP 4.4.8, see the ChangeLog.

 
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